Summary: GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we break down the latest Florida Gators football hires that took place over the weekend.<br> Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you their thoughts on the coaching hires, plus what these guys bring to the table.<br> Andrew and Nick also break down the Florida Gators basketball team’s recent success including a blowout win against Kentucky on Saturday.<br> TRANSCRIPT:<br> Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, another weekend full of drama in Gainesville.<br> Nick: I say it. I don’t know if people listen to it, or if it resonates with them, but when you cover this team there is never a dull day, never a dull moment. There’s always something going on in Gainesville.<br> Andrew: I have tried since Signing Day to take a day off, and still haven’t got that day off.<br> Nick: Not happening.<br> Andrew: It’s going to happen, very soon. I’m just going to shut it down, and whatever happens, happens. That’s about where I’m at. We knew coaching moves were coming. We had been kind of hinting at this Jajuan Seider hiring for Florida. It finally happened on Friday. It basically happened on Thursday.<br> Then, Torrian Gray leaves for the Washington Redskins. That one was a little bit out of nowhere. I knew he had interviewed or had talked to people, but that he was going to get the Redskins job was a little out of nowhere.<br> Nick: To me, I think it’s a little different for you, the NFL is the pinnacle. I grew up in a pro sports town. You grew up in Alabama. You don’t really have a pro sports teams. There’s no pro sports team in the state. We can argue that maybe the way that Nick Saban runs his organization there that maybe that’s not really amateur, that’s pro sports down there, but that’s just … I’m just kidding there. There’s no pro sports team. For me, a coach coaching in the NFL is better than coaching in college. It’s just a bigger league. To you, your first thing to me was why would you want to go to the Redskins?<br> Andrew: My first thing wasn’t exactly that it was a surprise that he went. It was more of we had heard that he really liked recruiting. Now, he had a bad year in recruiting. We said it all year long that he was struggling a little bit. My first thought is he got tired of recruiting in a hurry. The one thing that you will always here about Gray is how great of a coach he is. For a guy that just likes to coach, the NFL’s the spot for him. I don’t know. Like I said, it was a little bit of a shot out of nowhere, but then when you start to ask other people, they say multiple NFL teams had really interviewed him. Definitely looked like he was going to get a job when you hear that.<br> Nick: Yeah. The track record is there. You mentioned recruiting this year, but the track record is there. Not just recruiting, but also developing. You still have to develop, especially when you check out, every year the guys going into the NFL as underclassmen the number just keeps getting bigger and bigger. There is still some of that developing. Nick Saban went to the NFL with the Dolphins and found out this isn’t what I’m into coaching for.<br> It’s not the same as far as developing. You don’t have the same kind of power that you do over a college kid when you’re coaching at the college level where they’re student athletes. You’re a coach in the NFL, and you’re saying, “You got to run these wind sprints.” “Sorry, Chief. I’m a 13 year veteran left tackle. I’m making $20 million this year. You’re making three, and it’s in my contract that I don’t have to do these sprints. Figure that out, but I’ll be here standing next to you while everyone else runs.” That’s different.<br> With young people, with how young it is getting in the NFL with all the...
